Studied at the University of Strathclyde (BSc Hons, Physics) and University of Glasgow (PhD Physics) before working as an NHS Medical Physicist (MIPEM) in Glasgow and a Software Engineer with IGE Medical Systems, Radlett. Moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1990 to study Medicine (MB ChB) specialising in General Adult Psychiatry (MD, MRCPsych) and worked as a Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry/Specialist Registrar. Moved in 2004 to the University of Aberdeen as a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Mental Health/Consultant Psychiatrist, then in 2009 to the University of Dundee as Professor of Neuroimaging/Consultant Psychiatrist.

Gradin, V.B., Baldacchino, A., Balfour, D., Matthews, K., Steele, J.D., (2014). Abnormal Brain Activity During a Reward and Loss Task in Opiate-Dependent Patients Receiving Methadone Maintenance Therapy. Neuropsychopharmacology Vol 39 Issue 4, 885-894. Doi: 10.1083/npp.2013.289 Johnston, BA., Mwangi, B., Matthews, K., Coghill, D., Steele, JD. (2013) Predictive Classification of Individual Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans from Children and Adolescents. Eur Child Adol Psychiatry Dec; 22(12) 733-44 doi: 10.1007/s00787-012-0319-0 Christmas, D., Steele, J.D., Tolomeo, S., Eljamel, M.S., Matthews, K.M. (2013) "Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Chronic Major Depressive Disorder: 12-Month Outcomes in Highly Treatment-Refractory Patients" Journal of Affective Disorders Sep 25;150(3):1221-5 doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2013.05.080 Brydges, N.M., Whalley, H.C., Jansen, M.A., Merrifield, G.D., Wood, E.R., Lawrie, S.L., Wynne, S., Day, M., Fleetwood-Walker, S., Steele, J.D., Marshall, I., Hall, J., Holmes, M.C. (2013) "Awake Rodent fMRI: A Translatable Paradigm for Measuring Cognitive and Emotional Function in Rats", PLoS One (in press) Gradin V., Waiter G., O'Connor A., Romaniuk L., Stickle C., Matthews K., Hall J., Steele J.D. (2013) "Salience network-midbrain dysconnectivity and blunted signals in schizophrenia”, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 211(2), 104-111 Perrin, J., Merz, S., Bennett, D., Currie, J., Steele J.D., Reid I., Schwarzbauer C. (2012) "Electroconvulsive Therapy Reduces Frontal Connectivity in Severe Depression", PNAS 109(14) 64-71 Mwangi, B., Ebmeier K.P., Matthews, K.M., Steele, J.D. (2012) "Multicentre Diagnostic Classification of Individual Structural Neuroimaging Scans from Patients with Major Depressive Disorder", Brain 35(1) 54-71 Gradin, V., Kumar, P., Waiter, G., Ahearn, T., Stickle, C., Milders, M., Reid, I., Hall, J., Steele, J.D. (2011) "Expected Value and Prediction Error Abnormalities in Depression and Schizophrenia", Brain 134(6), 1751-1764 Hall J, Romaniuk L, McIntosh A.M., Steele J.D., Johnstone E.C., Lawrie S.M. (2009) “Associative learning and the genetics of schizophrenia” TINS 32(6) 359-363 Kumar P, Waiter G, Ahearn T, Milders M, Reid I, Steele J.D. (2008) “Abnormal temporal difference reward-learning signals in major depression” Brain, 131(8) 2084-2093 Rück C, Karlsson A, Steele J.D., Edman G, Meyerson B.A., Ericson K, Nyman H, ?sberg M, Svanborg P (2008) "Capsulotomy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – long-term follow-up of 25 patients" Archives of General Psychiatry, 65(8), 914-921 Steele J.D., Christmas D., Eljamel M.S., Matthews K. (2008) “Anterior cingulotomy for major depression: Clinical outcome and relationship to lesion characteristics” Biological Psychiatry, 63(7), 670-677 Steele J.D., Kumar P., Ebmeier, K.P. (2007) “Blunted response to feedback information in depressive illness”, Brain, 130 (9), 2367-74 Gilbert S.J., Spengler S., Simons J.S., Steele J.D., Lawrie S.M., Frith C.D., Burgess P.W. (2006) “Functional specialisation within rostral prefrontal cortex (area 10): a meta-analysis”, J Cog Neurosci, 18(6), 932-48 Ebmeier K., Donaghey C., Steele J.D. (2006) “Recent Developments and Current Controversies in Depression”, Lancet, 367, 153-167